"These days cars and other vehicles get more and more technology on board. We witnessed the creation of all- electric cars, self- driving vehicles, but they were usually small ones. Daimler decided to take it up a notch and created a self- driving big rig truck. "
UPS joins other companies electrifying their truck ranges in the name of efficiency like Tesla and Mercedes-Benz' parent company Daimler AG.
Mercedes-Benz Arocs trucks are an autonomous means to an end: The industrial vehicles can work without drivers, and without requiring a bevy of expensive sensors equipped on the truck itself. The service vehicles work by following the leader, along GPS mapped routes, providing high accuracy from a lead vehicle with control over the followers.
Tesla can supercharge one of its EVs in under two hours, Daimler wants to recharge one of its EVs in under five minutes.
